When William Fidkin Ashton was born on 27 February 1906, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Savage Ashton, was 35 and his mother, Leah Rebecca Fidkin, was 34. He married Ethel Bird on 25 December 1933, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in San Gabriel Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 3 April 1996, in Redlands, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Rose Hill, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
San Gabriel was incorporated as a city on 24 April 1913.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt thǣm) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tūn) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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